The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-01
/ BRILLIANT RECEPTION.
THE WEALTH AND CULTURE OF THE
CTTY Attic ATHLETIC RECEPTION.

The Ladies, whose Efforts Crowned the
Recent Fair of the Jersey City Ath
Ieuc Club with such Great Success,
Tendered Reception Concert that wa $
the Social Event OF the season.
A stranger in any of the fashionable sec
tons of the city last Thursday night, not
withstanding the inclemency of the wea-
ther, could not but have wondered the
reason for the harrying and scurrying of
coaches apparently hither and thither. But
he had only to turn to one acquainted in
the city to be informed that all the car
lisges were bearing their precious and
elegantly apparelled Dads to common
destination--the handsome home of the
Jersey City Ainieilc Ulab. He had but to
pursue the inquiry one question further,
and ask what was going on there, to learn
that the occasion was the long anticipated
reception of the members of the Club to
the ladies who participated in, and by
whose efforts the recent fair proved such a
grand success. For two days previous to
Thursday the Stars and Stripes had Aoated
to the breeze from the fag-pole at the
highest point of the Club house, as if ia
announcement of some grand ma
tlOOAl 6VeHk. Auu, HAil6 IL WAS ~
cal, it was a triumphant social event.
the like of which has never been held
this city and probably never in the Stat
OF course the various committees under
whose management the reception proved
no less success than the fair, were on
hand early to see that no detail of arrange
ment was left unattended to before the ar
rival of the guests. The arrival of the lat
ter set in as early as s. 30 and it was after
eleven o'clock before the last couple alight-
ed from their coach and glided up the vel
vety carpeted and canopied entrance to
the house. As each couple entered they
were directed to the stairs to the left and
after descending three or four steps the
gentlemen diverged to the cloak room, in
to which the bowling alleys had been II ans
formed, while the ladies proceeded straight
ahead down short flight of specially con-
~kracted stairs to the place where they laid
their wraps and displayed wealth
q costumes Of which any city in the Uni
ted States may feel justly proud, while the
sparkle of diamonds seemed to be in def
ance one of the other, and the number of
these most precious articles was legion.
Notwithstanding the two or three signs in
forming the gentlemen that the ladies
awaited them in the parlors, large num-
Der of the former fingered in the cloak
room smoking and chatting in groups, till
ten o'clock, at which hour the strains OF
music from the twenty instruments in Cap
pas Seventh Regiment band filled the
house and served as the announcement
that the liveliest place in the building for
the balance of the night would be the ball
room. And 80 it was. Indeed the two
hundred and fifty couples wko participated
in the grand march together with the two
hundred ladies and gentlemen who occu-
pied the gallery seats, the ladies attired in
all the richness and taste possible and the
gentlemen In their conventional claw ham
mers, displaying spotless white shirt fronts
4 ksSsstltau IN JsG imposing and animated
spectacle Dance succeeded dance IN rapid
succession, and while the number of parti-
cipants in waltZe 0ccasloned number of
collisions there was not an ungracefal
dancer on the floor. At midnight the bali
room WAS made somewhat comfortable by
the frat exodus to the supper room below,
into which the handsome billiard parlor
had been transformed, the billiard tables
covered only as an exceptionally excellent
caterer could have covered them, serving
as supper tables. Mazetti-the caterer on
this occasion, and who by the way took IN
exchange for the elegant collation. he served
the modest sum of 81, 500-had the tables
so arranged that every one remarked how
beautiful they appeared. 1t was not long
after the first exodus from the ball room
took place that a second detachment of
weary walters wendell their way to the
supper room, but it was forty minutes Ee-
fore the nunery dancers gained an entrance
to the supper room, although when they
got there they found all they desired. Dur
ing all the time supper was being served
the music from above permeated every
go fho Vrk1 rli oio of
the waItzs was continued without cessation
till3 o'clock Friday morning, when the last
carriage started homev ard with its weary oc-
cupaRts Nothing more perfectly charm
ing thar the parlors of the clubhouse
could be imagined The handsome chan
deliers were beautifully trimmed with SINH
lax, while the rare flowers scattered around
filed the rooms with their fragrance. 70
add to the many other attractions, Mr..
Uriah Allen had loaned a number of his
costly paintings with which the walls were
adorned The various committees mako
up was as follows:
REeEprfoS CoNMIrTEE-ATr. James @. Young,
Chairman Hon VIM. Brinkerhof, Hon. Gilbert
Collins Hon VIM. D. Edwards. Hon Jshn W.
Heck Hon John j. Toffey Mr.. VIM j. TAFT DR.. Il.
W. Johnson, DR.. L. j.. Gordon, Messrs W, W.
Coffin Geo f. Perkins, Walter s. Nelson, Thos.
H williams Samuel II. Finney, Thomas II. Towar,
Pster Henderson, John F. Klumpp.
LADIES' RECEPTION CoMMIrIEE-Mrs William
B;Inkerhoft. Mrs Gilbert Collins. Mrs. Willism D.
Edwards, Mrs w. W. Coffin, Mrs. William J. Tate.
Mrs. G f. Perkins, Mrs. W. s. Nelson, Mrs Z.
w Johnson Mrs. 4. FL. Williams, Mrs L. d Iowar,
Mrs John W Heck Mrs John J. Toftey. Mrs. JAS.
O. Young Mrs, Peter Henderson, Mrs. John j.
Klumph.
FLOOR COMMITTEES has. Cavalli. door manager.
w y VIDAL assistant j. W. Dusenbury, j, E. Lusk.
II. a. tisbpard Frank Muller, e. A. Bliss. E. E.
Underhiu WI johnson. Dan Bowley Waiter West
colt Arthur Hate o. A. Stenken, W. Post, Q. Lee
Meyers H. Bennett, George McIlroy. II. Soper.
Chas. Meyers Jr.
HOUSE CeaIMrrTEE-D David G. Dewitt, chairman.
a Henderson,, ]. w. Herbert, Jr., G. II. Chapman,
John Reid, II. Schemerhorn, Chas. Henderson, e.
e. Ahrens, Joe Gilmore. Al. Evans, Chas. b, Dick
son
HOUSE DEcoRAI1oN-w. J. TAFT, chairman, A. 6
Evans, G. NJ Snipman, John Beid, G. Henderson,